Some feisty women in the bible though. Take Judith, a young married Jewess. Her fellow Jews were making no progress repelling the invading armies of Nebuchadnezzar, led by the general Holofernes. Judith , accompanied only by her maid, visited Holofernes in his tent. She discussed theology and politics with him for three days, leaving respectably at night and eating her own kosher food and wine, while Holofernes grew more and more enamoured. The fourth night she agreed to feast with him, and sleep in his tent. She plied him with wine until he fell into a drunken stupor, and she and her maid cut off his head with his own sword. Then they left the camp quietly and took word to their own military leader, who attacked at dawn. Holofernes' troops were so demoralised when they found him slain that they capitulated at once